He undertook to convey her back to France in the perilous return of March 1815.
Yes," he declared, "and it's the weak little women that have sons that air so ready to march to the tap of the drum.
Years had passed since Jasper, a battle-smoked and bleeding soldier, had trod up to that lofty pile of rock to receive his discharge from the ranks; and desolate, with no drum and no fife to march back to his wretched home.
Mad as a March hare," Nancy heard one of the students say.
You'd be as mad as a March hare to do such a foolish thing.
Major Waller was next heard of in this connection in a dispatch of March 6th from Manila.
The change from march formation to that necessary for firing is termed 'coming into action'.
It was the custom in some places that the clergyman of the parish, with the parochial officers and the boys of the parish school, should march to the boundaries, where the boys were struck with willow rods.
It was originally given only when the officers were on the march or in the field, but now half batta is paid when troops are in cantonments.
That means that no man has fallen out on our first march in this country.
I was tryin' to hurry 'em along, but that Pilot, he heads the procession, and on he goes at a funeral march pace.
After a little conversation between the brass hat and their Commanding Officer, the latter gave the command and off they set in the darkness for their first routemarch on English soil.
Prudy played in high glee, for Susy allowed her to jump all her men, and march triumphantly into the king-row, at the head of a victorious army.
When she saw them "marshin' along," she was instantly seized with a desire either to head the company or to march in the rear, and set them to quacking.
Wesso seems to be able draw a picture like that which is on the March or April, 1930, numbers better than those of late.
I fear me the annotation on this precept of the General, will be expressed by the march of a troop of horse from Oxford to see it executed.
As the darkness gathered the lights from Kobe, came out against the sable background of lofty mountains clustering thickly along the Bund, and reflecting shining dots in the water, whilst arcs of light marchup the ascending roads.
We pass the mud forts of Taku, where the great battle of 1860 took place, when the allied forces were on their march to Peking.
Does it make no difference to Ivan Ivanoff to say to himself on the march when he thinks of his Emperor, "He knows what it's like, for he's done it himself?
On that day's march of fourteen miles there is not a single hut.
At the end of the march I usually found the tent pitched on irrigated ground, near a hamlet, the headman of which provided milk, fuel, fodder, and other necessaries at fixed prices.
The march was through broad gravelly valleys, among 'monstrous protuberances' of red and yellow gravel, elevated by their height alone to the dignity of mountains.
The thickness of the soles, the springiness of the felt, and the absence of heels made the boots particularly easy to march in, and the soldiers were thus able to cover great distances without feeling fatigue.
Him I sometimes saw, breaking with haggard eyes out of yonder copse, and calling to the pilgrims as they hurried along on their desperate march to the Holy City, where peace and pardon were awaiting them.
I have given a detailed account of these phenomena, in a paper read before the Geological Society in March 1838.
His martial songs, The Sword of Robert Lee, The Conquered Banner, and March of the Deathless Dead, have been dear to many Southern hearts.
Of the vigorous lines of the former, Hayne says in an interesting autobiographic touch, "I read them first, and was thrilled by their power and pathos, upon a stormy March evening in Fort Sumter!
The family silver, which had been stored in Columbia for safe-keeping, was lost in Sherman's famous "march to the sea.
Footnote A: The variations upon a march by Dressler.
As was necessary among a wandering people, it was constructed of such materials as could be easily taken apart and carried on the marchthrough the wilderness.
Was held in the spring, on the fourteenth of the month Abib, or Nisan, corresponding to parts of March and April (Exod.
D'Artagnan turned his back to them, and walked to the window, where he began to play a march upon one of the panes of glass.
The vicomte was summoned to surrender by the Arabs, but he made them a negative sign with his head, and continued to marchtoward the palisades.
The prince followed attentively the march and movements of the troops, so as to be able to sustain them with a strong reserve.
Prevot des Marchands to assemble the municipal guard and to march upon the Bastille for the king's service.
Prince de Conde to assume the command of the Swiss guards, of the king's guards, and to march upon the Bastille for the king's service.
Captain," said Biscarrat, "I beg to be allowed to march at the head of the first platoon.
Artagnan; and it is not an easy thing for men like you to march over the bodies of their friends to obtain success.
Coffee shop" is a favourite function, during the march of a regiment in India, at least it used to be in the olden time, before troops were conveyed by railway.
And then the march of time killed poor old Paddy, and another management reigned.
At the head of the casket, which is left open, two men march in the funeral procession carrying a wide tray filled with boiled wheat and sugar, and trailing a piece of black crape.
The young people jump over the fire while the young women and married women march around it saying, "May it not itch me, and may I not receive any scabs," taking care just to singe the border of their dresses.
I always like to see things finished, an' I want to make the warriors think a couple o' hundred white riflemen march where only five really make tracks.
The chiefs, Yellow Panther and Red Eagle, thought they ought to march at once, but they yielded to Alloway who was master of the great guns with which they hoped to smash the palisades around the settlements.
It was preposterous that they should be harried so on their march by a single enemy.
A little feeling has been shown on our march through the woods to the river.
It seemed a cruel jest that he, who had served in Flanders and Germany, in open country that had been civilized many centuries, should be sent from Detroit to march as an ally of savages in that enormous and unknown wilderness.
Perhaps they don't know which of the settlements tomarch against first.
It is not well for those who march with us to taunt each other.
They would waste no more time, but would marchas fast as they could to the main camp.
A day's march would take him to a favorite crossing of the savages, and that was why he and his comrades were in this region.
The warriors could not afford to march against Kentucky without them, and only he and his men knew how to use them.
The cannon which made their great strength also made their march slow.
Since they're on the march again," said Henry, "we can take it slowly and need not exhaust ourselves.
It was a strange scene, buried in the green wood, one of the unknown battles that marked the march of the republic from sea to sea.
If ever you should permit them, I will look on it as an absolute Breach of the Chain with us: If the French attempt it give me Notice, and I will march the whole Force of my Government to your Assistance.
Indeed Europeans will hardly think it possible, that Men could make such a March through the Wilderness in the severest Frosts, without any Covering from the Heavens, or any Provision, except what they carried on their Backs.
Next Day they march out with much Formality, dressed in their finest Apparel, and, in their March, observe a profound Silence.
After twelve Days March they arrived at Cadarackui Fort, one hundred eighty Miles from Montreal.
After a March to a surprizing Distance, at that Season of the Year, they surprised eighty of the Five Nations, who notwithstanding made a brave Defence, and did not run before they left most of their Men dead on the Spot.
It certainly was a bold Attempt, to march above 700 Miles from Quebeck through vast unknown Forests.
The French however grew jealous of these Caballings, and therefore resolved to delay their March no longer, and would not stay one Day more for the Utawawas, who desired only so much Time to pitch their Canoes, and went away without them.
The People of Schenectady were at that Time in the greatest Security, notwithstanding that they had Information from the Indians, of a Party of French, and French Indians being upon their March that Way.
Yes, Thursday, March first, and it will be just one year to-morrow since you came to Brookside Farm.
All book accounts must run from March first of one year to March first of the succeeding year.
Bettie thinks it's better to take inventory on March first instead of April first, so that all the labor that goes on the spring plowing may be charged in the new year.
